Hair tweezers



April 14., 1953 G. T. DALE 2,634,728

HAIR TWEEZERS Filed Nov. 22, 1950 IN VEN TOR.

Patented Apr. 14, '1953 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFRE George T. Dale, SeaCliil N. Y.

Application November 22, 1950, Serial No. 197,149

1 Claim.

The present invention relates to improvements in tweezers and relatesmore particularly to tweezers especially adapted for plucking hairs orthe like.

An object of the invention is to provide hair tweezers wherein thegripping portions of the tweezers are held in positive engagement witheach other under spring pressure and the gripping action does not dependon the user holding the tweezers closed. In the present tweezers, theuser merely releases whatever pressure is be- 'mg exerted to hold thetweezers open and the user can then move the tweezers as desired bymerely holding the handle. Another object of the present invention is toprovide tweezers having gripping portions that are especially designedand adapted to grip small individual objects such as a human hairwithout disturbing or gripping surrounding objects. A further object ofthe invention is to provide a novel manner of securing the operatingmembers of the tweezers together which permits the tweezers to be madeat the lowest possible cost.

Other objects and advantages of the present invention will be apparentand best understood from the following description and the accompanyingdrawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of hair tweezers embodying the presentinvention;

Fig. 2 is a side view of the hair tweezers illustrated in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the hair tweezers illustrated in Fig. 1 as seenfrom the rear;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary side View of a portion of the hair tweezersillustrated in Fig. 1 but on an enlarged scale;

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary plan view of another portion of the hairtweezers illustrated in Fig. 1, but on an enlarged scale; and

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary view in section taken along the line 6 6 of Fig.3.

Referring now to the drawings in detail, the tweezers consist of twooperating members I0 which are formed from spring steel. The operatingmembers Io are identical with each other and they are preferably made ofstainless steel or chrome plated to permit easy cleaning and to preventthem from rusting. This also gives the tweezers an attractiveappearance.

Each of the operating members i0 has a blade or gripper il at one endthereof and a handle portion I2 at the other end thereof. The portion ofthe operating member Iii intermediate the ends is bent to form two armsi3 and I 4 that extend outwardly at an angle from the gripper 2 I andthe handle portion I2, respectively, and join each other at an anglesomewhat greater than a right angle.

The rear of the gripper I l and a part of the arm I3 extending therefromare notched along one edge, as indicated at I5, to a depth of at leastone-half the width of the operating member It. When the two operatingmembers II) are assembled, the arms I3 on the respective members arecrossed with what would normally be the outer faces of the grippers I Iopposing each other. The arms I 3 cross at the notches I4 at which pointthey are reduced in thickness so that they will not interfere with eachother and the notches also permit movement of the arms I3 with respectto each other.

When the operating members have been assembled, the handle portions I2thereof are.ir 1 opposing relation and they are secured together by asplit sleeve I6. The split sleeve I5 is squeezed together and clamped tothe operating members I i? after it has been put in place. When this isdone, the operating members ID are for all practical purposespermanently secured together without soldering or welding and anyunsightly marring of the operating members as might occur if they weresoldered or welded together.

The arms I 4 extending from the handle portions IZ diverge in oppositedirections from the point at which the handle portions are joined andthey resiliently hold the opposing faces of the grippers i i in rm,positive contact with each other. The arms Iii may be squeezed togetherby the user pressing against their outer sides and as indicated by thedotted lines in Fig. 2, this separates the opposing faces of thegrippers I I to engage the desired object. When pressure is releasedfrom the arms Iii, the resiliency of the arms returns the grippers totheir normal or gripping position without any other action on the partof the user.

As shown best in Fig. 5, the grippel1 portions il are pointed at theirgripping ends and are beveled, as indicated at Il', along their sideedges on one face thereof. The face of each of the gripper portionswhich opposes and contacts with the other gripper portion is fiat. Themanner in which the faces of the opposing gripper portions contact isshown in Fig. 4. This construction of the grippers permits smallindividual objects such as human hairs to be readily engaged with asure, positive gripping action under the action of the spring arms I4.

It will be understood that various changes and modifications may be madein the particular embodiment of the invention illustrated and describedherein without departing from the scope of my invention as dened by thefollowing claim.

I claim:

A tweezer comprising a pair of operating members made of spring steel,each of said members being identical and having a handle portion at oneend thereof, said handle portions having opposing fiat faces engagingwith each other, opposing arms extending from said handle portions anddiverging outwardly therefrom, a second arm extending inwardly from theouter ends of each of the rst-mentioned arms, said second arms extendingacross each other and having elongated notches therein extending alongthe side edges thereof at the point where said arms cross, and atriangularly-shaped gripping member carried at the free end o f each ofsaid second arms, said gripping members having opposed fiat faces withthe other faces thereof being bevelled along their side edges, said flatfaces normally being held in resilient engagement with each other and asplit sleeve extending over the handle portions of the operatingmembers, said split sleeve being-clamped together to hold the opposingfaces of the handle portions in contact with each other.

GEORGE T. DALE.

References Cited in the le of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS NumberName Date 90,319 Somers May 18, 1869 450,266 Truax Apr. 14, 1891 725,455Kusche Apr. 14, 1903

